HAPTER IN THE NEWS

Society of Nuclear Medicine

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This morning when I left the house, I could feelthat the fall season was around the corner. It usedto be that the Central Chapter of the SNM had ameeting in September. It was a good time to seethe colleagues. I was at the meeting of the Board

of Governors when themotion not to have theChapter�s fall meetingwas passed. In retro-spect, we probably

should have formulated an addition or alternativeto that motion in that with no fall meeting, theChapter operates in the �virtual� mode for a year.Maybe we ought to debate the issue of the fallmeeting either by e-mail or at the midwinter meet-ing or at the annual meeting.

I think that the SNM andthe Chapter have debatedquite extensively the issue ofthe legal relationship betweenthe SNM and the Chapter.With the new resolutionspassed at the annual meet-ing, which are available toany Chapter member (e-mailto Ms. Renae Henkin ), wenow will be in better groundsto employ the advantagesand avoid the disadvantages of the bond between theSNM and the Chapter. I personally feel that the mo-tions that were adopted in St. Louis relating to this topichave left us in a better position than before.

Report from theChapter President

Report from theTechnologist Section

President

Jennifer L. Bryniarski,CNMT

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Table of Contents

President�s Report .................................. 1Tech President�s Report .......................... 1Alliance for Quality Medical Imaging ........ 2Future Meeting�2002 ............................ 3

SNMTS Joins MIRODA Alliance ................... 3Editor�s Desk ........................................... 4Notes from SNM, St. Louis ................... 4�9

Spring Meeting, 2001, Itasca, IL ..... 10�11List of Chapter Officers .......................... 12Nuclear Medicine Update ....................... 12

Jesus A. Bianco, MD

October 2000

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This year has been eventful around the Chapterand the national organization. At the annual meet-ing in St. Louis, more focus was placed on defin-ing the relationship between the chapters andSNM, Inc. It was reaffirmed that the chapters

are and should remainseparate and legal en-tities from the nationalorganization. In keep-ing with this idea, theCCSNM-TS is takingsteps to properly align

ourselves with CCSNM, Inc., and SNM, Inc.;likewise, the national organization is assessing theSNM bylaws for changes necessary to reflect the

independent status of affiliatechapters. The SNM-TSChapter President�s Commit-tee also met in St. Louis. Dis-cussion ranged from concernsabout declining membership tobrainstorming about how toimprove services and informa-tion important to our profes-sion. Items discussed in somedetail included student recruit-ment, the focus of the TaskForce on Chapters, and thenational licensure bill for medi-cal imaging professionals.

A coalition of groups representing medi-cal imaging and radiation therapy pro-fessionals has formed to pursue federalminimum standards for the provision ofsafe, high-quality radiologic care. Accu-rate radiation therapy procedures andcompetent, compassionate patient careprovided by educated professionals arevalues espoused by the group. The Al-liance provides its members with a fo-rum to identify, investigate, and take ac-tion on the issues that affect the profes-sionals they represent. Each member or-ganization is strengthened through thepower of the Alliance�s unified action.

The Alliance for Quality MedicalImaging and Radiation Therapy is a coa-lition of health care organizations dedi-cated to the provision of safe, high-qual-ity radiologic care. They believe the per-sonnel who perform medical imaging ex-aminations and plan and deliver radia-tion therapy treatments should be re-quired to demonstrate competence intheir area of practice. Competency canbe demonstrated through graduationfrom an accredited educational program,certification by a national examining or-ganization, or licensure by the state.

The disciplines and specialties rep-resented by the Alliance include radiog-raphy, nuclear medicine, magnetic reso-nance imaging, computed tomography,sonography, mammography, radiationtherapy, and medical dosimetry. In addi-tion, they represent managers, educators,and researchers in the radiologic sci-ences.

The Alliance�s goals are three. Oneis to ensure the quality of patient careby pursuing standards for the certifica-tion and education of medical imagingand radiation therapy professionals. Thesecond is to educate patients about medi-cal imaging and radiation therapy pro-cedures and the personnel who performthem. The third is to encourage lawmak-ers at the state and federal level to rec-ognize the vital role that qualified per-

Alliance for Quality Medical Imaging is Formed and Proposes FederalMinimum Standards for TechnologistsSue Weiss, CNMT, FSNMTS, The Children�s Memorial Medical Center, Chicago, IL

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sonnel have in the safe, accurate deliv-ery of radiologic procedures and the pro-vision of quality patient care.

One method of achieving these goalsis through the establishment of federalminimum standards for personnel whoperform medical imaging examinationsand radiation therapy procedures. In1981, Congress passed the Consumer-Patient Radiation Health and Safety Act,providing the states with standards forthe certification and education of radio-logic personnel and a model licensure bill.Compliance with the Act, however, wasmade voluntary. As a result, only 35 stateshave implemented licensure laws regu-lating radiologic technologists and radia-tion therapists, and only 24 states licensenuclear medicine technologists.

To ensure patient safety and examquality, the Alliance is attempting to in-troduce federal legislation that will re-quire states to comply with the Con-sumer-Patient Radiation Health andSafety Act or risk losing the opportunityto participate in Medicaid waiver pro-grams. Also supporting this legislativeeffort are the Conference of RadiationControl Program Directors, the Associa-tion of Vascular and InterventionalRadiographers, the Society for RadiationOncology Administrators, Help Hospi-talized Veterans, Help Disabled WarVeterans, and the Cancer ResearchFoundation of America.

Recognizing that future success inthe legislative arena will depend upon col-laboration with other organizations dedi-cated to quality radiologic care, in July1998 the ASRT and the Society ofNuclear Medicine�Technologist Sectionfounded the Alliance for Quality Medi-cal Imaging and Radiation Therapy.Membership in the Alliance is open toany organization in medical imaging orradiation therapy that shares the goal ofensuring quality patient care through theestablishment of minimum personnel cri-teria.

The Alliance provides professionalassociations in the radiologic scienceswith a forum to identify and address is-sues of common interest. More impor-tantly, creation of the Alliance sends amessage to the public and to lawmakersthat the professional associations repre-senting medical imaging and radiationtherapy personnel are united and areready to act on the beliefs they value.

The Alliance will continue to pursuethe establishment of federal minimumstandards for radiologic personnel. Dur-ing the 106th Congress, it plans to intro-duce a bill in Congress that would addan enforcement mechanism to the Con-sumer-Patient Radiation Health andSafety Act of 1981. In addition, the Alli-ance will work at the state level to urgelocal legislators to draft licensure lawsthat adopt the standards provided by thefederal government.

The Alliance for Quality Medical Im-aging and Radiation Therapy supports theestablishment of minimum standards bythe federal government for personnel whoperform medical imaging exams and de-liver radiation therapy treatments. Byensuring a minimum level of education,knowledge, and skill for radiologic per-sonnel, federal minimum standards willv Ensure that quality information is pre-sented for diagnosis and that quality ra-diation therapy treatments are delivered,leading to accurate diagnosis, treatment,and cure.v Reduce health care costs by lower-ing the number of examinations that mustbe repeated due to improper positioningor poor technique. Repeated radiologicexaminations cost the U.S. health caresystem millions of dollars annually.v Improve the safety of radiologic pro-cedures. Administered properly, radia-tion is an invaluable tool in the diagnosis,treatment, and management of disease.But most radiologic procedures also carrya potential health risk, and radiation canbe harmful if misadministered.

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Founding Members of the Alliance� American Society of Radiologic

Technologists� Society of Nuclear Medicine�

Technologist Section

Alliance Charter Members� American Association of Physicists

in Medicine� American College of Medical Physics� American Registry of Radiologic

Technologists� Association of Educators in Radiologic

Sciences� Association of Vascular and

Interventional Radiographers� Joint Review Committee on Education

in Nuclear Medicine Technology� Joint Review Committee on Education

in Radiologic Technology� Nuclear Medicine Technology

Certification Board� Section for Magnetic Resonance

Technologists of ISMRM� Society for Radiation Oncology

Administrators

SNM-TS has agreed to participate inthe Medical Imaging and Radiation On-cology Data Alliance. MIRODA is acoalition of eight accreditation, certifi-cation, and professional organizations inthe radiologic sciences. The Alliancewas established in 1998 to create acentral source of information about themen and women who work in medicalimaging and radiation oncology.MIRODA�s mission is to make it fasterand easier for researchers to access theinformation they need about radiologicscience practitioners. The goals ofMIRODA are tov Define the universe of the profes-sion to include demographic profiles ofthe professionals and professionswithin the community.v Correlate the relationship of educa-tion, certification, years of practice, andcareer paths.v Identify practice trends and patternssuch as multiskilling, new technologies,licensure mandates, practice accredi-tation, scopes, and standards of prac-tice.v Collect information for research.v Distribute and display data in a singleresource.

SNMTS Joins MIRODA AllianceSue Weiss, CNMT, FSNMTS, The Children�s Memorial Medical Center,Chicago, IL

v Offer a method for radiologic tech-nologists to demonstrate continued com-petency in their profession.v Reflect the professional nature of ra-diologic technologists.v Demonstrate the radiologictechnologist�s ability to provide the high-est level of patient care.

The data will be available to researcherssometime next spring. A research pro-posal will be required as an applicationto use the database. Database searcheswill be provided by a MIRODA-ap-proved third party to ensure confidenti-ality of individual data. A summary of theresearch findings will be submitted toMIRODA for its own use and publica-tion for the community. Watch for de-tails later this year.

The organizations participating inMIRODA are the American Registry ofRadiologic Technologists (ARRT),American Society of Radiologic Tech-nologists (ASRT), Association of Edu-cators in Radiological Sciences (AERS),Joint Review Committee on EducationalPrograms in Nuclear Medicine Technol-ogy (JRCNMT), Joint Review Commit-tee on Education in Radiologic Technol-ogy (JRCERT), Medical Dosimetrist Cer-tification Board (MDCB), Nuclear Medi-cine Technology Certification Board(NMTCB), and Society of Nuclear Medi-cine�Technologist Section (SNM-TS).

Find out more about MIRODA andSNMTS participation in the organizationby visiting MIRODA�s website at http://www.miroda.org.

Future Meeting�2002

We already have made significant plans for our spring meeting in the year 2002 and more details will be given on thewebsite and in the next newsletter.

Proposed Location: Northwestern University, Chicago, IL Dates: April 11�14, 2002

Program Chairs: Mark Groch, Ph.D. (312) 926-4506, DOCNUC@aol.comMonica Geyer, CNMT (312) 926-0422, mgeyer@nmh.org

Topics: � Oncology�Diagnostic and Therapeutic� Positron Emission Tomography� Future Advances in Nuclear Medicine

Innovations in Nuclear Medicine Imaging, Therapy, and Instrumentation

Editor�s note: For the last 5 years, Bob Zimmerman haswritten an informative review of his own personal expe-riences at the SNM Annual Meetings. As a medical physi-cist, Bob�s reviews have focused primarily on the instru-mentation and technical aspects of the meetings. To seehis original report complete with web links, check out theHarvard Medical School web page at http://www.med.harvard.edu/JPNM/physics/.

St. Louis is a nice place to have a meeting, if you can adjustto the fact that this is not quite a big league city. The dearth ofhotels in the downtown area is very surprising. Always re-luctant to use the high-priced convention hotels, my searchfor a suitable place for my wife and me to stay was turningup only hotels in very undesirable locations until I thought:bed and breakfast! A little Internet searching turned up threepromising candidates. We finally settled on one a short walkfrom Union Station and the train/subway into downtown St.Louis. That�s right, St. Louis now has a subway and it isclean, reliable and pleasurable to take. And it easily connectsto Forest Park�the Museum Center of St. Louis. Theweather in St. Louis is known to be very warm and humid inJune, but this year we were blessed with extremely pleasantweather, making the daily walk from Lafayette Square (the

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This is our first year with no scien-tific meeting in the fall. While wehad another very successful seriesof roadshows, these do not serve toupdate members on activities withinthe chapter. Hence we have in-creased the number of issues of thenewsletter to three in order to keeppeople up to date with what is hap-pening. One issue that is loominglarge on our horizon is finance. Inorder to run a chapter like ours, werequire a minimum income in order

to pay our executive officer and meet our operation expenses.At present our only sources of income are our Spring meetingand our Roadshows. This year our expenses exceeded ourincome ! The best way to turn this around is for members tosupport the chapter meetings. If members decide not to at-tend the chapter meetings then it begs the question - what arewe here for and what purpose do we serve. As the largest

Sue Weiss, CNMT, FSNMTS

Editors� Desk

Michael K. O�Connor, Ph.D.

Notes from the Society of Nuclear Medicine Annual Meeting, St. LouisBob Zimmermann, Ph.D., Joint Program in Nuclear Medicine, Harvard Medical SchoolBrigham & Women�s Hospital, Department of Radiology, Boston, MA

COMMENTARY

location of our bed and breakfast) and Union Station verypleasant.

The bed and breakfast, Lehmann House, turned out evenbetter than expected as the Lafayette Square association washolding their annual house and garden weekend�perfect formy wife to enjoy until I could get free of some meetings.

It was hard for me to appreciate why the meeting nowstarts on a Sunday, moving the seminars to Saturday and com-mittee meetings to Friday. I suppose someone liked it, but Ihave not met that person, yet.

The first order of my business was to sniff around at theFriday evening Board of Directors meeting to see what wasgoing to happen regarding a controversial �strategic alliance�that the SNM and GE announced in May. Apparently thiswas not important enough to make it onto the Board of Direc-tors agenda. Did you know that the Board meets in private ata posh dinner meeting?

So, I figure, all the action must be happening at the Houseof Delegates meeting on Saturday. Better be there. Friendswho are members of the House told me that there had beenno items in their premeeting packet indicating this alliancebusiness was to be discussed. Sure enough, it was NOT onthe agenda. But in the new business section of the meeting,Michael O�Connor put it on the floor and a 45-minute discus-

chapter in the SNM we can drawon an enormous range of talentedpeople to provide timely up-to-datetalks on almost any aspect ofnuclear medicine. We are willingto change the format, location,times if it will help people get tothe meetings.The one thing wecannot do is fight apathy. If peoplehave no interest in their professionand make no effort to keep up-to-date with current developments,then the end result will be the demise of chapters such asours. Not only do people lose the educational aspect that thechapters offer, but also the professional component that helpsfight the battles when other groups lay claim to our practiceareas. It�s your life - think about it !!!

Editors: Michael O�Connor (mkoconnor@mayo.edu)and Susan Weiss (sweiss@nwu.edu)

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sion ensued. There was general agreement that the Board haderred in making the alliance with GE and GE had exploited thealliance. There was less agreement on what to do about it. Theroot of the problem seems to lie in a vote taken at last year�sHouse of Delegates meeting wherein the House instructed theBoard to �make alliances.� The House has now decided that itshould formulate guidelines or make a �how to make alliances�kit for the Board to follow. The House also asked the Board torevoke the existing alliance with GE until the alliance kit couldbe completed. This could happen as early as the midwintermeeting. It would behoove all chapters and anyone else whoworries about the SNM selling out to big, powerful, dominantcompanies to keep an eye out on this process.

A poster in the GE booth showed how GE will exploit anyspecial relationship they think that they might enjoy with SNM.All this politicking was a distraction from the meeting and, moreimportantly, on Friday and Saturday, a distraction from the cityof St. Louis. We did get to partake of the Lafayette Park fes-tival and Forest Park: the Missouri History Museum, The JewelBox (a small flower conservatory), and the St. Louis Zoo (cer-tainly one of the better U.S. zoos).

Sunday was the start of the scientific sessions and theequipment exhibition, the real meat of the SNM for most people.The World Federation of Nuclear Med. and Biology meetingwill be held jointly with ALASBIMN September 29�October4, 2002, in Santiago, Chile. It promises to be a great meeting.This group met in St. Louis to coordinate with the internationalgroup that is assisting with the meeting.

SUNDAY, JUNE 4My notes on the scientific sessions will be significantly short-ened from previous write-ups for two reasons: I lost my notesabout the third day of the meeting and my wife sort of pulledme away from a number of sessions I otherwise might haveattended. So I am mostly going from pure memory, a verydangerous thing for me.

The opening plenary session was memorable mostly be-cause two basic scientists were honored. Mathew Thakurreceived the Georg de Hevesy award for his many contribu-tions to radiochemistry and radiopharmaceutical developments.Ronald Jaszczak was awarded the Paul C. Abersold awardfor contributions to basic science applications.

Incidentally, the SNM included in our registration packeta FREE CD-ROM with searchable copies of all abstracts pre-sented at the meeting. I like it!

SESSION 10: INSTRUMENTATION & DATAANALYSIS TRACK: COMPUTER & INSTRUMEN-TATION YOUNG INVESTIGATOR SYMPOSIUM

64. PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS ANDEVALUATION OF THE TIERPET, A HIGH RESO-LUTION ANIMAL PET SYSTEM.S. Weber*, A. Bauer, H. R. Herzog, F. Kehren, K. Ziemons,H. H. Coenen, K. Zilles, H. Halling, Forschungszentrum Jülich,Jülich, Germany.

There was certainly a lot of interest at this meeting in imagingof small animals. The Jülich TierPET was a good example ofthis.The group reported on NEMA-like measurements on theirYAP crystal scanner. Resolution of 2-2.3 mm with scatterfractions of 12 to 15.4% were reported. (http://ime-web.ime.kfa-juelich.de/ime_www/pet/tierPET/engl.html)

65. INPUT FUNCTION DERIVATION FROM BRAINH215O PET IMAGE USING INDEPENDENT COM-PONENT ANALYSIS.J. Y. Ahn*, J. S. Lee, S. K. Kim, K. W. Kang, D. S. Lee, J.K.Chung, S. A. Shin, M. C. Lee, College of Medicine, SeoulNational Univ. Seoul, South Korea; College of Natural Sci.Ewha Womans Univ. Seoul, South Korea.I was pretty lost on this paper, not being at all familiar withICA�Independent Component Analysis. The object is to getthe input function on H2

15O brain perfusion studies. They testedit on 5 dogs and feel that it is better than factor analysis forthis purpose.

66. ESTIMATING THE UNCERTAINTY IN THELOCATION OF A LOCAL MAXIMUM IN A PETIMAGE.L. D. Nickerson*, C. C. Martin, J. L. Lancaster, J. H. Gao,P. T. Fox, University of Texas Health Science Center, SanAntonio, TX.Based on the derivation of Huesman for ROI variance calcu-lations and using only sinogram data the method presentedhere allows the variance of the maximum pixel location to becalculated. Agreement with directly measured variance onpixel location was excellent.

67. IMPROVED QUANTITATIVE IMAGING FOR111In-PROSTASCINT USING CT/SPECT ANDDUAL-ENERGY RECONSTRUCTION.K. H. Wong*, H. R. Tang, A. J. Da Silva, M. C. Wu,K. Iwata, B. H. Hasegawa, University of California at SanFrancisco, San Francisco, CA.11% accuracy was achieved in a phantom. A single �effec-tive attenuation map� was within 10% of the dual map methodand much faster to compute.

68. AN INNOVATIVE HIGH EFFICIENCY ANDHIGH RESOLUTION PROBE FOR PROSTATE IM-AGING.L. Zhang*, N. H. Clinthorne, S. J. Wilderman, C. Hua, T. J.Kragh, W. L. Rogers, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,MI.This was a simulated study based on Compton camera tech-nology. One part of the camera is in the form of a transrectalprobe and used Si detector 1x4x1 cm3 with 1 mm crystals.The other detector(s) is a dual 40x40x2 cm3 planar detectorswith. Phantom results were encouraging over 140-511 keV.Resolution was about 2.5 mm.

69. REGIONAL LEFT VENTRICULAR FUNCTIONAND PERFUSION FROM GATED SPECT 201TlSCANS: A 4D MODEL USING SPHERICAL HAR-MONICS.P. M. Mansour*, M. F. Smith, V. Dilsizian, S. L. Bacharach,The National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.A simulation study. Authors attempted to draw as much re-gional wall thickening, perfusion, and maximum regional widthas possible from noisy, low-resolution data. Their 4D modelreduces variation in values compared to 2D model withouthurting accuracy.

70. LESION DETECTABILITY OF MAP RECON-STRUCTION USING COMPUTER OBSERVER: ATHEORETICAL STUDY.J. Qi*, R. H. Huesman, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab,Berkeley, CA.Theoretical results for PET systems indicate that detectabilityis better for MAP compared to FBP because of noise model-ing. Lesion detectability in PET also profits from attenuationcorrection.

SESSIONS 11 AND 12 : INSTRUMENTATION & DATAANALYSIS TRACK: SMALL ANIMAL IMAGING ANDINSTRUMENTATION IN EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY

This promised to be a very interesting session but I missed thewhole afternoon because The American Board of Science inNuclear Medicine (http://www.absnm.org/) held its meetingin direct competition with the scientific program on Sundayafternoon, one of the many indications that not everybody hadadjusted to the change in the starting day for the meeting. TheABSNM offers certification to physicists, chemists, and otherscientists in nuclear medicine. I have been serving on the boardfor two terms and have now rotated off, so there will be anew representative from the Computer and InstrumentationCouncil. One less chore at the next SNM.

MONDAY, JUNE 5The Siemens Physicist Breakfast was held from 6:30�8:00 am.It was pretty good as these things go. Vilim Simcic told usabout Duet, the next generation of coincidence camera basedon the e.cam. It has 1" thick Bicron StarBrite crystals, highercounting rates, and better performance than cameras with thin-ner detectors. To be released soon at a store near you. MarkGroch showed a few measurements he was able to take atNorthwestern before the meeting. Conclusion was that it is apretty good coincidence camera.

The always-entertaining, ever-optimistic Ron Nutt con-vinced us that the best use of the limited but ever-increasingsupply of LSO was to make high-end PET scanners. Gone isthe idea of completing and bringing to market a LSO/NaI scan-ner for hybrid PET and SPECT applications. And YSO doesnot rate a mention. The syngo computer platform that cutsacross all Siemens medical imaging platforms was expoundedon by some suits from Germany. e.soft is the nuclear medi-

cine contribution to this corporate effort. Platform is NT allthe way. Cardiac software is the first clinical e.soft applica-tion with more to follow. I wish it was UNIX or even Linux.Dennis Nelson described the software package he had devel-oped for image fusion MIM and MIM2. Definitely worth atry. See the website: http://www.nuclear.uhrad.com/software.htm.

The Academic Council meeting took up my lunch hour.There is still great concern about the quality and number ofnuclear medicine residents coming into programs. The num-ber of training programs is still dropping. Mike Graham is startingan organization for nuclear medicine program directors. TheAcademic Council has a web page now: http://www.snm.org/about/new_councils1.html. Note the links to our Harvard Pass-port project. Comments are welcome. There was a PACSpresentation in the continuing ed program. You can catch theessence at: http://www.med.harvard.edu/JPNM/Lectures/SNM00/PACS.html. The President�s Reception was held atthe Missouri Athletic Club and was very nice. Those Mis-souri athletes have a great place.

TUESDAY, JUNE 6ADAC Physicist breakfast was 7:00�8:00 am but ran over. Itwas a very exciting presentation, especially the one by RogerLecomte who described his recent work with LSO and GSO.GSO has certainly captured ADAC�s thoughts recently andthey are building prototypes (with Penn). Lecomte�s presen-tation included a fascinating discussion of the light centers inGSO and the various times to produce the scintillation andhow dependent it is on material effects You can find more at:http://www.usherb.ca/bleu/anglais/industrial/biotechnology/lecomte.html. Joel Karp from Penn told us about some of thesimulation results and prototype construction. It certainly lookspromising. It�s ard to get a sense of the time scale to startproduction but it looks like clinical work for the masses will be2�3 years away.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7Missed the Wagner Highlights Lecture but the last time Ichecked it was available by streaming video from the SNMwebsite: www.snm.org. I have not looked at it but if it is likemost streaming video, I�ll be hard put to watch it all.

POSTERS

802. OPTIMIZATION OF CLINICAL PET-FDG AC-QUISITIONS ON THE ADAC C-PET SCANNER: ASTUDY BASED ON A WHOLE-BODY PHANTOMAND PATIENTS DATA.O. de Dreuille*, C. Lartizien, H. Foehrenbach, P. Maszelin,D. Brasse, J. F. Gaillard, HIA Val de Grace, Paris, France;Service Hospitalier Frederic Joliot-Commisariat à L�EnergieAtomique (CEA), Orsay, France.Authors found that max NEC was 12.8 kcps in a realisticphantom. Injected should be in the range 1.4�3.4 MBq/kgand images taken at 90 min.

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803. OPTIMIZING GEOMETRY FOR HYBRID PET:DUAL-, TRIPLE-, AND FOUR-HEAD CAMERAS.R. Z. Stodilka*, S. J. Glick, Univ. Massachusetts Med. Sch.,Worcester, MA.Sensitivity was studied using computer simulations of up to 4heads. No collimation was used. 4 heads were the best, ofcourse, but 3 heads approached the sensitivity of 4 heads withcertain radial positions.

806. DIGIRAD 2020TC SEGMENTED CAMERA�CALIBRATION METHODS.N. E. Hartsough*, R. Yao, B. Pi, Digirad Corporation, SanDiego, CA.The calibration method for uniformity and energy were de-scribed in this poster. More at http://www.digirad.com/default.htm.

807. PERFORMANCE AND CLINICAL TRIALS OFA MULTI-PINHOLE NONROTATIONAL CARDIACSPECT SYSTEM.D. L. Kirch*, J. E. Koss, P. P. Steele, T. K. Johnson, NuclearCardiology Research, Englewood, CO; Univ. of Colorado Hlth.Sci. Center, Denver, CO.Three seven-pinhole cameras surround the patient. No rota-tion is required. Energy information is acquired for correctionof simultaneous Tc/Tl imaging. Provides an inexpensiveSPECT system, say the authors.

808. ACCURACY OF 131

I TUMOR QUANTIFICA-TION IN RADIOIMMUNOTHERAPY (RIT) USINGSPECT IMAGING WITH AN ULTRA HIGH ENERGYCOLLIMATOR.Y. K. Dewaraja*, M. Ljungberg, K. F. Koral, University ofMichigan, Ann Arbor, MI; University of Lund, Lund, Sweden.The authors found the UHE collimator much better forquantitation.

809. USE OF A PRE-STUDY INFORMATION DEN-SITY SCAN TO IMPROVE TRANSMISSION MAPACQUISITION FOR ATTENUATION CORREC-TION.L. Shao*, J. Ye, M. K. Durbin, ADAC Laboratories, Milpitas,CA.Authors found that statistics could be optimized by doing aprescan to determine heart count rates then adjusting emis-sion and transmission scans accordingly.

810. PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF THREE DIF-FERENT SCINTILLATOR ARRAYS FOR BREASTIMAGING WITH POSITION SENSITIVE PMT.J. H. Kim*, Y. Choi, K. C. Im, S. K. Woo, Y. S. Choe, K.-H.Lee, S. E. Kim, B.-T. Kim, Samsung Med. Ctr., SungkyunkwanUniv., Seoul, South Korea.The conclusions were that CsI(Tl) was better than NaI(Tl)and CsI(Na). This is different than the published abstract whereNaI was favored.

811. CARDIAC IMAGING WITH GAMMA CAM-ERA COINCIDENCE (HYBRID) PET.M. F. Smith*, B. P. Brown, D. R. Driver, V. Dilsizian, F. V.Schraml, J. M. Carson, S. L. Bacharach, NIH & NationalNaval Medical Center, Bethesda, MD.Coincidence camera was not very accurate in absolutequantitation due to dead time correction inadequacies. Rela-tive quantitation in the heart was OK.

818. RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CAMERA PHYSI-CAL CHARACTERISTICS AND CLINICAL PER-FORMANCE OF PATIENT STUDIES: AN EVALU-ATION OF TWO DEDICATED PET SYSTEMS.F. Benard*, R. Smith, A. A. Alavi, J. Verreault, R. Hustinx,A. Matthies, Centre Univ. de Sante de l�Estrie, Sherbrooke,PQ, Canada; Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; Cen-tre Hosp. Univ. de Liege, Liège, Belgium.The authors were genuinely surprised that C-PET comparedvery favorably in clinical imaging tests compared to a 2DHR+ high-end machine. They say they would get C-PET inspite of the better numbers for the more expensive machine.Was this clinical test capable of discriminating between ma-chines? I suspect not.

819. EVALUATION OF SPECT IMAGING SYSTEMSBASED ON ACTIVITY ESTIMATION IN SMALLBRAIN STRUCTURES.H. Jadvar*, S. C. Moore, M. F. Kijewski, S. Mueller, A.Bonab, R. E. Zimmerman, A. J. Fischman, University ofSouthern California, Los Angeles, CA; Harvard MedicalSchool, Boston, MA.It was found that dual-head fan-beam collimators easily beatout dual-HR collimators and were slightly superior to theCeraspect dedicated brain imager.

823. DESIGN OF A PINHOLE COLLIMATOR FORHIGH RESOLUTION 99mTc IMAGING.E. C. Frey*, B. A. Chalker, B. M. W. Tsui, Univ. NorthCarolina, Chapel Hill.A Monte Carlo study that looked at optimizing the materialand the shape of the pinhole. W and Au are best and a pin-hole keel thickness of 0.5 mm was found to be optimum.

864. MULTIDIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS AND VISU-ALIZATION SOFTWARE FOR DYNAMIC SPECT.N. Roeber*, T. Moeller, A. M. Celler, T. Strothotte,T. Farncombe, Vancouver Hospital and Health Sciences Cen-tre, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Simon Fraser Univ., Burnaby,BC, Canada; Univ. of Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany.Tools for dynamic SPECT were created in IDL.

869. QUALITY CONTROL FOR SPECT ATTENU-ATION CORRECTION.A. M. Celler*, L. Hook, D. W. Currie, R. D. Steuart, D. M.Lyster, Vancouver Hospital and Health Sciences Centre,Vancouver, BC, Canada.This looked useful. I was sorry I could not take it home.

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870. THE IMPORTANCE OF THE TRANSMIS-SION RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHM INATTENUATION-CORRECTED TOMOGRA-PHY: A PHANTOM STUDY.E. P. Ficaro*, J. A. Fessler, University of Michigan, AnnArbor, MI.In a phantom study it was found that an iterative penal-ized likelihood reconstruction gave lower transmissioncrosstalk ratios over the 6-month life of the source thandid FBP reconstruction.

872. THE INFLUENCE OF SCATTER COMPEN-SATION ON ATTENUATION-COMPENSATED99mTc SESTAMIBI SPECT CARDIAC SLICES.P. H. Pretorius*, M. V. Narayanan, S. T. Dahlberg, J. A.Leppo, M. A. King, University of Massachusetts Medi-cal School, Worcester, MA.Scatter correction resulted in improved uniformity overthe heart.

878. EVALUATION OF FOURIER REBINNINGMETHOD FOR DUAL-HEAD HYBRID PETCAMERA.J. Ye*, E. Gualtieri, L. Shao, D. Coles, B. Khanvali,J. Koster, ADAC Laboratories, Milpitas, CA.Fourier rebinning was good for contrast and resolutionand reduces object shape distortion. When will it beclinical?

885. INFLUENCE OF THE RECONSTRUCTIONTECHNIQUE (OSEM AND FBP) ON THE MAG-NITUDE OF RING ARTIFACTS IN SPECT.L. K. Leong*, R. L. Kruger, M. K. O�Connor, MayoClinic, Rochester, MN.It still needs the same good uniformity. The algorithmdoes not make any difference.

886. FULLY 3D BINNING AND FOURIER-SPACEREBINNING OF PET DATA ACQUIRED WITHROTATING PLANAR DETECTORS.D. J. Kadrmas*, E. V. Di Bella, University of Utah, SaltLake City, UT.I suspect this was an important paper. Authors foundthat angular bin size can cause unusual sensitivity func-tions. They went on to implement a version of FOREmore suitable to large-area coincidence detectors.

894. THE APPLICATION OF DYNAMIC SPECTIMAGING (DSPECT) TO RENAL IMAGING.T. H. Farncombe*, A. Celler, R. Harrop, D. Lyster,D. Noll, J. Maeght, Vancouver General Hospital,Vancouver, BC, Canada; Simon Fraser University,Burnaby, BC, Canada; Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse,France.Regional time activity curves were obtained from SPECTstudy. Sounds like it could be useful.

896. COMPARISON OF TWO CORRECTIONMETHODS FOR 18F FDG COLLIMATED SPECTIMAGING.K. Kne�aurek*, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY.Restoration (resolution recovery?) was found to significantlyimprove the F-18 images. Scatter correction was little help.

1052. RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL PACKAGEINSERT DOSIMETRY TABLES: JUST HOW ACCU-RATE ARE THE DATA?J. C. Hung*, K. L. Classic, T. L. Mays, Mayo Clinic, Rochester,MN.Package inserts are rarely updated with refined dose calcula-tions as new information becomes available. It is off by as muchas a factor of 2.

816. LOCALIZATION OF RECURRENTCOLORECTAL CANCER USING FDG: CORRELA-TION BETWEEN PET AND INTRAOPERATIVEBETA AND GAMMA PROBES.E. E. Zervos*, L. R. DePalatis, D. Desai, D. Soble, J. Frye,E. W. Martin, Ohio State Univ., Wendt-Bristol Radiology/PET,Columbus, OH.Both types of probes worked about the same.

BOOKSSorenson and Phelps�s 2nd edition of Physics in Nuclear Medi-cine remains my favorite book for resident teaching. I under-stand there will be a 3rd edition soon. Meanwhile Gopal Sahahas a 2nd edition of Physics and Radiobiology of NuclearMedicine on its way to bookstores in October. It may be wortha look.

TECHNICAL EXHIBITORSBicron: Bicron StarBrite crystals are a slotted crystal speciallymade for each application. Siemens is using them in the newDuet coincidence camera. The slots control light distribution inthe thick crystals and help maintain spatial resolution across theenergy spectrum. Bicron was not handing out technical data onthis.

Digirad: (www.digirad.com): Digirad has dropped the CZT de-tector for the time being. It�s too expensive, I guess. Their cur-rent camera is a small CsI(Tl) matrix with one-on-one Si photo-diodes, about 3-mm intrinsic resolution with 15% energy resolu-tion., and 20-cm square FOV. It may have some utility. Is SPECTin a spinning chair for one of them?

GE Medical Systems: GE featured Hawkeye, the x-ray tubeon a SPECT gantry to do registered CT and SPECT. They alsofeatured a number of strategic alliances, one of which was withthe SNM. Hmmm. It sounds to me like they are exploiting theSNM to the detriment of other vendors.

Siemens Medical Systems: For Duet, see above. They weretaking orders for the CT/PET system. It consists of a HRwith a spiral CT with gantries on a common axis. It caused a lot

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President�s Report (cont.)In regard to a website that I promised to consider dur-

ing my term, discussed in my short talk in St. Louis, I thinkthat we must wait and continue sampling the experts in thisarea and survey the needs of the membership. I do not feelthat we have at this time the elements needed to structure awebsite that is comprehensive, representative, and uniquelyeducational. A website has to be planned carefully. Therehas to be a clear idea of the best way to achieve the pur-poses of the site to get the viewership wanting relevant edu-cational information of high quality and meeting specificneeds. Image downloading, simple menus, and handoutsshould be tailored for all constituencies: physicians, tech-nologists, physicists, radio chemists, administrators, and otherhealth professionals.

As your president luckily organizing the Itasca, Illinois,meeting with Ms. Liza Hazen and Ms. Renae Henkin, it isfair to say that I am very pleased with the program for thespring meeting. Certainly, in keeping with the growth ofNuclear Medicine, we have allotted PET oncology and car-diovascular nuclear medicine heavy representation at themeeting.

Likely, by the time of the meeting, the various aspectsof the I-131 and the Y-90 anti-B cell monoclonal antibodytherapy for patients with non-Hodgkin�s lymphoma will bethe standard of care, and at Itasca we have the true believ-ers discussing the particulars of immunotherapy. QC ofSPECT imaging, marketing basics, politics of reimbursement,and the newest nuclear medicine instrumentation completethe final touches of the pouring of the frosting on the cakefor the formal sessions at the Itasca meeting. We also lookforward to one or perhaps two Track 2 sessions for themembers of the �dedicated group� and for financially sup-porting the Chapter.

Finally, let me ask for the participation of the wholemembership to help us increase the attendance at the springmeeting so that the overall mission of the Chapter is realizedwith solid financial status.

«p1«p1«p1«p1«p1 Representative Lazio, from New York, has agreed tointroduce the national licensure bill�Consumer Assuranceof Radiologic Excellence (CARE), in the House. Fourteenmembers of the House of Representatives have agreed tocosponsor the CARE bill. Although the introduction of thebill did not take place prior to the July 4th recess, plans arestill set to introduce it when Congress reconvenes.The pur-pose of the bill is to establish nationwide minimum standardsfor competency of radiologic personnel. The SNM-TS wouldlike to encourage everyone to contact their representativeand urge them to support the CARE Act by signing as co-sponsors and voting for the bill.

Great news! The ARRT board has agreed to extendMRI eligibility requirements to include NMTCB certifica-tion. Applicants may now be registered in radiography orradiation therapy by the ARRT, or in nuclear medicine tech-nology by the ARRT or NMTCB, and must maintain regis-tration in radiography, nuclear medicine technology, or ra-diation therapy at all times to be eligible for certification andregistration in MRI. The option is currently available from1/1/2001 to 12/31/2003. The board will re-evaluate whetherto keep this option as the end date approaches.

The time has come to start thinking about spring as well.The CCSNM-TS is currently accepting nominations for itsexecutive officers and bylaws committee. I would like toencourage those interested to consider running on the ballot.This is a great way to become more involved in the Chapterand national organization. For more information, please con-tact Ridge Conant, Nominating Committee Chair, (216) 778-5453, or the CCSNM office at (630) 686-6187.

Mark your calendars and plan on attending the CentralChapter�s Annual Spring Meeting on March 16�18, 2001 inItasca, Illinois. �New Vistas in Nuclear Medicine� will fea-ture the latest and greatest in nuclear medicine technology.Information about Chapter events is available on our website,www.ccsnm.org; also, the SNM website, www.snm.org, isa good resource for information regarding the national licen-sure bill, reimbursement issues, and upcoming meetings.

In closing, I would like to wish everyone a safe andhappy holiday season! See you in the spring!

Technologist Section President�s Report (cont.)«p1«p1«p1«p1«p1

TECHNICAL EXHIBITORS�CONT.of interest. It. also featured the corporate computer plat-form syngo with nuclear medicine application e.soft.

SOFT Medical (www.softmedical.com): A new (to me)PACS vendor playing in the nuclear medicine field. It seemsreasonably comprehensive. I did not see a user list.

Segami: This computer vendor had a lot of action, it seemed.In addition to selling direct, IS2, Digirad, and GammaMedica(probes) were using this computer on their own systems.

Daxor (www.daxor.com): This is the first time I have seenthis company at SNM. They make a system for blood vol-ume determinations�pre-loaded syringe with I-131 albumin,small sample changer/counting system, and computer forrapid calculation.

Diagnostic Technologies (division of US Surgical Corp.):The were selling the Navigator GPS surgical probe for lymphnode mapping. I wish there were NEMA specs for surgicalprobes.

OBJECTIVESOBJECTIVESOBJECTIVESOBJECTIVESOBJECTIVESOncologyTo discuss the clinical utility of dedicated PET and of gamma cameracoincidence imaging in clinical oncology; and to address these clinical pro-cedures in the areas of solitary pulmonary nodule, melanoma, colorectalcancer, and lymphoma.CardiologyCardiologyCardiologyCardiologyCardiologyTo discuss the utility of nuclear cardiology procedures to prognosticateadverse cardiac events in patients with CAD. To review practical tech-niques to optimize nuclear cardiology procedures: data acquisition, dataprocessing, and data display.TherapyTo discuss the emergence of radioimmunotherapy including radioiodinatedmonoclonal antibodies in the therapy of patients with high-grade, inter-mediate-grade, and low-grade non-Hodgkin�s lymphomas; and to un-derstand the usage of other radioimmunotherapy techniques.Imaging TechniquesTo present procedures that increase the quality of SPECT images, includ-ing the feasibility of compensations for radionuclide attenuation, scatter,and collimator-response restoration; and to make iterative SPECT re-construction understandable for physicians and technologists.

FRIDFRIDFRIDFRIDFRIDAAAAAYYYYY, MARCH 16, 2001, MARCH 16, 2001, MARCH 16, 2001, MARCH 16, 2001, MARCH 16, 2001IMMUNOTHERAPY OF LYMPHOMAMichael J. Blend, PhD, DO, Mary E. Yeomans, CNMT, Moderators8:00 Introduction and Presentations

8:30 Immunotherapy of Low-Grade Non-Hodgkin�s LymphomaJames L. Quinn III Memorial Lecture

Gregory A. Wiseman, MD

9:30 Immunotherapy for Lymphoma: Y-90A. Michael Zimmer, PhD

10:00 COFFEE/SODA BREAK IN EXHIBIT HALL

10:30 Immunotherapy for Lymphoma: I-131Richard L. Wahl, MD

11:00 FDG/Ga-67 Imaging of LymphomaRebecca A. Sajdak, CNMT

11:30 Proffered Papers Sharon Lafferty, CNMT, Moderator

12:00 LUNCH ON YOUR OWN

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET)POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET)POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET)POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET)POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET)James K. O�Donnell, MD, Susan C. Weiss, CNMT, Moderators

1:00 Detection & Staging of Lung Ca by Dedicated PETScott Perlman, MD

1:30 PET Studies of Colon Ca, Melanoma, & LymphomaDavid Bushnell, MD

2:00 Acquisition/Processing 4 Clinical Dedicated PET Studies a DayJoni Hanson, CNMT

2:30 COFFEE/SODA BREAK IN THE EXHIBIT HALL

3:00 Clinical Utility of Coincidence PETRobert E. Henkin, MD

3:30 How to Optimize the Good Counts in Coincidence PETJames R. Halama, PhD

4:00 Acquisition & Processing of a PET Coincidence StudyDaniel Jurgens, CNMT

5:00 Shamrock Co-Ed Basketball Tournament5:00 TRACK 2

SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 2001CARDIOVCARDIOVCARDIOVCARDIOVCARDIOVAAAAASCULSCULSCULSCULSCULAR NUCLEAR MEDICINEAR NUCLEAR MEDICINEAR NUCLEAR MEDICINEAR NUCLEAR MEDICINEAR NUCLEAR MEDICINENicholas C. Friedman, MD, Karen Martin, CNMT, Moderators

8:30 Interpretation and Clinical Utility of MPIJ.A. Bianco, MD

9:15 Strengths & Pitfalls of Gated Perfusion Cardiac SPECTMark W. Groch, PhD

10:00 COFFEE BREAK IN THE EXHIBIT HALL

10:15 Iterative ReconstructionCarolyn Harrison

11:00 QC of Mycocardial Perfusion Imaging (MPI)James Kritzman, CNMT

12:00 AWARDS/BUSINESS LUNCH

QC IN NUCLEAR MEDICINE SPECTQC IN NUCLEAR MEDICINE SPECTQC IN NUCLEAR MEDICINE SPECTQC IN NUCLEAR MEDICINE SPECTQC IN NUCLEAR MEDICINE SPECTJack Juni, MD, Nancy McDonald, CNMT, Moderators

1:00 Attenuation and Other Corrections before IterativeReconstruction: Emphasis on MPI Studies

Michael K. O�Connor, PhD

1:45 Myocardial Filtering and ArtifactsC. David Cooke, MSEE

3:00 COFFEE/SODA BREAK IN EXHIBIT HALL

3:15 Uniform SPECT Attenuation CorrectionBill O�Brien-Penny, PhD

3:45 Advances in Quality Control of Cardiac Static andSPECT Studies

Jane P. Fry, CNMT

5:00 ADJOURN

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SUNDSUNDSUNDSUNDSUNDAAAAAYYYYY, MARCH 18, 2001, MARCH 18, 2001, MARCH 18, 2001, MARCH 18, 2001, MARCH 18, 2001ENHANCING THE NUCLEAR MEDICINE DEPENHANCING THE NUCLEAR MEDICINE DEPENHANCING THE NUCLEAR MEDICINE DEPENHANCING THE NUCLEAR MEDICINE DEPENHANCING THE NUCLEAR MEDICINE DEPARTARTARTARTART-----MENTMENTMENTMENTMENT

8:30 Marketing BasicsLisa Samerdyke, CNMT

9:15 But I Am Not a HospitalKen D. Klodnick, BS

9:45 COFFEE BREAK

10:00 Latest in Nuclear Medicine InstrumentationD. Bruce Sodee, MD, Lisa Hazen, CNMT,Jennifer Nelson-Bryniarski, CNMT, ModeratorsTBA TBATBA TBA

11:00 Regulatory and Reimbursement IssuesRobert E. Henkin, MD

11:30 Putting It All TogetherLisa Hazen, CNMT

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Join us for some Fun & Games at Steven Spielberg�sGAMEWORKS�Saturday Evening, March 17, 2001

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FACULTYJ.A. Bianco, MDUniversity of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin

David Bushnell. MDUniversity of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa

C. David Cooke, MSEEEmory University, Atlanta, Georgia

Jane P. Fry, CNMTWendt Bristol, Inc., Columbus, Ohio

Mark W. Groch, PhDNorthwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois

James R. Halama, PhDLoyola University Medical Center, Maywood, Illinois

Joni Hanson, CNMTUniversity of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin

Carolyn HarrisonADAC Laboratories, Milpitas, California

Lisa Hazen, CNMTADAC Laboratories, Milpitas, California

Robert E. Henkin, MDLoyola University Medical Center, Maywood, Illinois

Daniel Jurgens, CNMTSt. Luke�s Hospital, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Ken D. Klodnick, BSThe Imaging Center, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio

James Kritzman, CNMTUniversity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Bill O�Brien-Penny, PhDUniversity of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

Michael K. O�Connor, PhDThe Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota

Scott Perlman, MDUniversity of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin

Rebecca A. Sajdak, CNMTLoyola University Medical Center, Maywood, Illinois

Lisa Samerdyke, CNMTDuPont Pharmaceuticals, N. Billerica, Massachusetts

Richard L. Wahl, MDUniversity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

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